“Come a Little Closer” was a classic rock song from Jay and the Americans. It reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 after its release in 1964, making it the band’s highest-charting single. More recently, it was featured in The Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 during an iconic arrow scene. It was also used during Gilmore Girls and Ray Donovan.
When speaking about the creation of the song in an interview with Carl Wiser, Kenny Vance, who was a founding member of the band, said, “This was recorded in the last, probably five minutes of a session where we were trying to record something else that we spent the whole session on. In those days, the session ran for three hours, I think the musicians got $65 for a three-hour session. They didn’t want to go overtime, and they had recorded this one song, and they needed a flipside, and they said OK, boom, let’s do it. And we recorded it, and that’s it.”
Jay and the Americans achieved great success since starting in 1959. They were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002. They even opened for The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during their first American tours.
When speaking about opening for The Beatles with Boca Magazine, Vance said, “When we got there, I was shocked to discover that The Beatles actually knew who we were. We had had hit records in England, and they were friends with the Ronettes, and we were friends with the Ronettes, and they had told them about us. They were young kids as I was a young kid, and there was a certain camaraderie—'I’m in a group, you’re in a group.’ There wasn’t a big separation in those days. We were contemporaries of theirs, and they accepted us as that.”
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Jay and the Americans released over 10 albums. Some other notable songs from the band include “She Cried” and “Cara Mia.” They also performed a popular cover of “This Magic Moment,” which was originally by The Drifters.
Despite their success, Jay and the Americans officially parted ways in 1973.
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